Notes on 2025 (Before I Forget)

Not a wellness post. Just a personal one.

So much it feels like I’ve left and said on the page lately. 2025 wasn’t a huge journaling one for me, but I prayed a lot more. Intercession broke open in me and it was beautiful. This year I hope I’ll get better at doing both. What could I say that would catch us all up here?

I guess I would say I saw God’s faithfulness up close in 2025. In the day-to-day, maybe it felt painfully un-extraordinary, but it was truly anything but. Over and over again He poured out purpose on the small, the mundane and perceivably insignificant. I felt strongly since getting married and moving back home, it was crucial to learn to be full on a small simple life. It was crucial to feast on small rhythms. To find joy and contentment with building a home, making food for my husband, learning to steward each other, and our love for one another. And amidst long and often the same kind of day, we fought for joy in our home, hope in our hearts, and truly tried the best we could with what was in our hands.

We prayed and interceded for a lot, especially our families. We struggled to believe again and again that our assignments, our responsibilities, would ever truly experience God’s favor, that our reformation could actually undo what generations of disobedience have left us with. We fought off resentment in our hearts and stumbled out of the grip of mammon — (the pressure to trust in money, security, and our own effort more than God) — maybe almost daily.

But through it all, He has kept us. And as much as the enemy would try to blind me from the things the Lord has done, I know more than ever that He is faithful. We have seen and tasted fruit, however small or even temporary it felt. He continues to meet us and take care of us. And our hearts, however, fleshly or fragile, are set on a continuous transformation. I pray that our fear and reference for God would ever increase. He is truly, undoubtedly, worthy of every effort it takes to trust Him. Of the struggle and wrestling it takes to put off our humanity and unlearn our heaviness.

So we look to 2026 with expectant eyes and hopeful hearts, believing that He will be faithful to finish the good work He began in us.